Just a few days after it was released for the LG G3, T-Mobile is now rolling out the Android 5.0 Lollipop update for the LG G2. The news, however, is tinged with possible frustration since there’s a chance that you will be made to wait up to five weeks before you finally see the update land on your device. T-Mo’s support pages note … [read full article]
Every once in a while I try to get a hold of my TmoNews inbox and filter through all the recently sighted network changes we get sent in. Today is one of those days, and there’s a fair few new sightings to inform you of in a number of markets across the U.S. Big and small cities alike. And – of course – most of those are new 700MHz band 12 LTE sightings. With 700MHz sightings, it’s … [read full article]
Back on March 27th, we published a poll as pre-orders kicked off for three new devices. Those were – of course – the Samsung Galaxy S6, S6 Edge and HTC One M9. Most who ordered their new smartphones on opening day will more than likely have received their shiny new gadgets by now. And so it seemed a good time to look back at the poll and see which devices you – our faithful TmoNews readers … [read full article]
We all know John Legere takes no prisoners on social media. He tweets what he wants, when he wants and will quite happily antagonise his competition. But you can be sure he will never criticize his own customers. In fact, when it comes to CEOs on Twitter, there aren’t many that measure up to John’s engagement with his company’s subscribers. So, when Donald Trump decided to call out John for T-Mobile’s “terrible” service, there’s no surprise in … [read full article]
It’s become something of a pattern since the Uncarrier movements started a couple of years back: T-Mobile unleashes a program or plan, and another carrier copies it. Whether that’s separating the plan and cost of the phone in to two separate deals, or offering early upgrade plans. T-Mobile does it, and the rest follow suit in a bid to remain competitive. One of those moves – launched by T-Mobile in October 2013 – was to give its … [read full article]
Those of you following spectrum acquisitions and auctions will know that, towards the end of 2014, T-Mobile and a bunch of other companies took part in an AWS-3 spectrum auction. Although T-Mo was by no means the biggest of the bidders, it did secure a healthy amount of the airwaves to help strengthen its network. And, it’s been discovered today, that it … [read full article]
Apple updated its “Where to use Apple Pay” page this morning with a list of ten new locations you can use its contact-less payment system. And among those ten new merchants, is T-Mobile. The carrier joins companies like Gamestop, Acme, Firehouse Subs and Rubio’s among others as the latest to join Cupertino’s payment revolution. And with Apple Watch coming very soon, T-Mo couldn’t have chosen a better time to join in. If Apple’s updated page … [read full article]
Tomorrow is the big launch day. The HTC One M9, Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge will be available officially in stores and online. And while T-Mobile has been offering them already on pre-sale, tomorrow is the first time you can walk in to a store and walk out with one in your hand. T-Mobile reminded us of this fact in an early press release, but more importantly, let us in on some tasty tidbits of … [read full article]
Since its launch, the T-Mobile software updates progress tracker has been an incredibly useful tool. That is – of course – unless you happen to be a Galaxy Note 4 owner. T-Mobile’s flagship phablet owners have been forced to watch as other, seemingly less important devices (Note 3 anyone?) get blessed with Android’s “sweetest … [read full article]
Apple has just released the latest delta update to its popular iPhone operating system. iOS 8.3 is available for iPhone users to download now and weighs in just under 300MB in size. If you’re one of T-Mobile’s iPhone-toting customers, you won’t notice any major new features, but there are several bug fixes in tow. iOS 8.3 brings new emoji to the keyboard, Siri in a few new languages as well as equipping the digital assistant with a … [read full article]
If T-Mobile’s controversial CEO, John Legere is to be believed, T-Mobile has already overtaken Sprint as the third largest carrier in the States. This is down to the fact that Ol’ Yeller has been counting its inactive customers for much longer than is normal. Or at least, that’s what Legere claims. Regardless, most analysts are singing from the same hymn sheet now, looking ahead to Q1 … [read full article]
T-Mobile regularly teams up with musical stars to offer exclusive content and bonuses to its fans and customers. Last year it was Macklemore and Shakira. This year it’s Zedd. In a press release today, T-Mobile announced that it will working with the Grammy award-winning artist as his new album, True Colors is launched. To kick off the new album, and the tour that’s following soon, T-Mobile and Zedd are going to offer 250,000 free downloads of the … [read full article]
